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“As the gentleman knows, we have an agenda, which I talked to him about briefly, we call Make It In America, which is essentially about growing manufacturing, encouraging manufacturers to return to the United States, and encouraging people when they want to go into manufacturing to do so here in America. Not only will that provide for a made in America label all over the world, but it will also provide the middle-class jobs and opportunities that we need...

“Mr. Speaker, the fundamental problem is not my way or the highway, it's no way. The Republican Judiciary Committee has passed out a number of immigration reform bills. The Homeland Security Committee headed by a Republican Chairman has passed out an immigration reform bill dealing with border security. None of those bills have been brought to the Floor...

In 2000, Congress passed the National Law Enforcement Museum Act, which authorized the development of plans for and the construction of a museum to honor the nearly 20,000 local, state, and federal law enforcement officers who have fallen in the line of duty since 1791.

On April 7th, 1994, Hutu militias ordered the country’s Hutu majority to exterminate the Tutsi ethnic group resulting in the murder of over 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, during a 100-day period.

“I thank the Ranking Member for yielding. I would first observe, Mr. Speaker, that the American people ought to lament another opportunity missed. An opportunity to come together and adopt a big, balanced plan for investment and balance in our fiscal system in America.